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National Liberal Party disbanded, joined the Conservative Party Conservative: 1968 Feb 1974: Defeated Conservative: Mervyn Parnicott-Pike [av] Melton: 1956: Feb 1974: Retired Conservative: Muriel Gammans [aw] Hornsey: 1957: 1966: Retired Labour: Mary McAlister [ax] Glasgow Kelvingrove: 1958: 1959: Defeated Unionist: Betty Harvie-Anderson [ay ...
Timeline of female MPs in the House of Commons; All-women shortlists; Election results of women in United Kingdom general elections (1918–1945) Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918; Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom § Women; Women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom; Widow's succession
Sixty-eight women have been appointed to positions in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, with three female Prime Ministers serving in cabinet.Since, by convention, members of the cabinet must be a member of either the House of Commons or House of Lords, [1] the Prime Minister could not appoint women to the cabinet until the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 allowed women to stand ...
All-women shortlists are a method of affirmative action which has been used by the Labour Party to increase the representation of women in Parliament. As of 2015, 117 Labour MPs have been elected to the House of Commons after being selected as candidates through an all-women shortlist. [ 22 ]
One hundred and twenty one Conservative Party members of Parliament (MPs) were elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at the 2024 general election, [1] the lowest number in history. [2] Party leader Kemi Badenoch is shown in bold.
Seventy-two Liberal Democrat members of Parliament (MPs) were elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at the 2024 general election. [ 1 ] The List
Members of Parliament for the Tory Party, ancestor of the modern British Conservative Party from 1801 to date. See History of the Conservative Party for details of the transformation of the Tory Party into the Conservative Party. It should be noted that before 1834 party lines were less rigid than they are nowadays, and the Tories consisted of ...
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